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AI Agents Now Control Allen Telescope Array for Extraterrestrial Signals
NVIDIA has integrated AI agents to control the Allen Telescope Array in Northern California, which is used for searching for alien signals. The AI agents can now handle daily operations such as instrument calibration, error correction, and data analysis, all through natural language prompts. The Allen Telescope Array, which consists of 42 antennas, traditionally required manual intervention for these tasks. The system, built on NVIDIA’s Holoscan platform, uses NVIDIA’s RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell GPUs and the SETI Institute’s CyberEther framework to process up to 2.4 terabits per second of sensor data on-premises.